Petals I Kindle

Joint Poetry by Venkataraman L.N. and Joseph Kurian

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Tri-haiku XXVIII (Healing)

With no abandon
to a mediocrity
I wait with patience

Hasten the mending
the healing of wounds and ills
Bring back spring to step

For I am waiting
Breath bated, coiled to move
to those hills again

Tri-haiku XXVI (patience)

Earlier it comes
every year it seems to me
Sunshine and Christmas

And yet I still wait
as anticipation grows
until the right time

The waiting is good
as all good things come to those
with rewarding here

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Emotional Deluge

I wrote this poem in my mother tongue, Axomiya(Assamese) a few days back and posted in my blog (http://www.fleetingmuse.wordpress.com) on July 26, 2018.  I have a few Bengali friends from my college days with whom I share my poems.  Whenever I share a poem written in Assamese with them, I try to translate that to Bengali for their benefit. I do not claim any strength in writing in Bengali.  So if any of my reader finds my Bengali translation inadequate, I apologise.  Constructive criticism is appreciated as that will help me to improve my translation skill in future.

I translated the poem to English and sharing all the three versions here, English followed by the original Assamese and then the Bengali translation.

If I am swept away someday
In an emotional deluge
Please stand by me
Be my rock
A pillar of patience

HAIKU: FISHING IS

BY CHARLES ROBERT LINDHOLM

FISHING IS HUNTING

HAIKU: REQUESTING PATIENCE

By Charles Robert Lindholm

Requesting patience

Available

There’s a room for me here
but not the one I want.
The room I’ve chosen is not available.

Cheerful Endurance

The waiting has been long, but I
Refuse to sigh.

Compliments of the season

 

Winter’s warming finally here
with cinnamon and sage
a promise to fruition
comes swiftly to assuage
Laughter’s distant echo
growing louder all the time
to compliment the season
in its presence here, sublime

Patience

Painting by Richard Rensberry

We humans make a lot of noise
and what we are chasing
escapes us.

That Space In Between

Where we find hope

Framed by last night and tomorrow

that sight

that helps our tired soul

to want to wish for whimsical

delights.

The Night of Waiting

Where Hell Freezes

Where love speaks, speech freezes
Where truth speaks, weakness freezes
Where courage speaks, emotion freezes

The Current of Knowing

Wait till the dark hinges upon this window

Till the burning oil runs low and

The bread of that day has been eaten…

 

There is mystery in my soul,

Beauty I left unattended to when the day

Swung its hand across my face…

A fountain of brotherhood: Acrostic.

Empathy

E –  Envy that you don’t need

M-  Making the other feel important in feat

P-  Patience displayed when you have no time to spare’

A – Acceptance of differences of opinion: gift to inhabit in the mind of the other.

T – Tolerant enough for the shoulder to spare,

H-  Hope for the hopeless,

Y – Young and not so young at heart, all deserve empathy

By: Shashi Moore

Astounding Assemblage

Astounding Science Fiction, October 1953 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

It was so smooth to the touch
built with talent , patience and such
a family prize , passed down with pride
it was sleek , fast , a dream ride
astounding assemblage indeed
had every thing our baby needs
this carriage was a century old
smoothly down streets it rolled
the time will come sooner or later
I wait for the day we pass it to daughter.

This poem was written for a challenge , Anne has a challenge going every week . Please stop by and play along , you may find this poetry challenge here